Impact & SDGs
The outcomes a commercial model produces.
Nia is a commercial company. The numbers below are what that model produces, read the same way by the factory and the family.
What we measure
Seven numbers the factory and the family read the same way.
Worker retention
Members staying employed across the corridor, month after month. The number that matters to the factory and the family at the same time.
Average tenure
How long a worker holds a job after Nia houses him. The longer it gets, the less the employer pays in replacement, and the more the worker sends home.
Migration continuity
Workers who would have returned to the village after one job, staying for the next. The corridor doesn't reset every quarter.
Savings sent home
Rupees remitted by Nia members to families in source districts. The reason the worker left in the first place.
Access to essentials
Members consuming curry, soap, shampoo and shelf-stable groceries at prices the corner shop cannot match. Cost of living, compressed.
Occupancy stability in Nests
Nests filled, month after month, in the same Nest, with the same workers. The opposite of churn.
Replacement cycles avoided
Hires the employer did not have to make because the worker we housed last month is still on the line this month.
The framework
How this maps to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
SDG 8
Decent work & economic growth
Continuous employment, formal housing, savings accumulation, and protection from the informal-credit traps that erode worker earnings.
SDG 10
Reduced inequalities
Migrant workers from low-income source districts gaining access to the same quality of housing, essentials and financial services urban formal-sector employees take for granted.
SDG 11
Sustainable cities & communities
Managed worker housing inside industrial theatres, replacing the slum-and-broker economy that surrounds every factory cluster in India.
Why we publish this
The business is the programme.
Investors, lenders, foundations and government stakeholders ask. The metrics above are the answer, reported in our quarterly board pack and audited annually. We do not run an impact programme alongside the business. The business is the programme.
The outcomes are the consequence of building it well.
Nia is a commercial company. We make money by solving for continuity in India's migrant workforce, and these outcomes are what that model produces.